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The judge apologised unreservedly for her remarks and the JCIO said in a statement: "Although the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice considered HHJ Lynch's remarks to be inappropriate, they did not find that they amounted to misconduct or warranted any disciplinary sanction.

"[They] were of the view that the matter should be dealt with by informal advice."

Hennigan was hauled before an Old Bailey judge in October 2012 for making Nazi salutes at the Magpie Pub in New Street, off Bishopsgate, in the City of London.

He then claimed he had only been raising his arm to collect his change after paying for a drink, but was convicted of breaching an ASBO after a trial.